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Bakhtawar Bhutto-Zardari is the daughter of the assassinated Benazir Bhutto and Pakistan’s current President. So will she too enter the violent political arena of her homeland?

At Edinburgh University she is known as Itty Bee, a gregarious final-year
English literature student with a penchant for MIA, Jay-Z and impromptu
boom-box-and-barbecue picnics with her close-knit circle of friends. She has
been, like most of her contemporaries, locked away in her bedroom lately,
forcing on her “revision face” and keeping herself fortified with Diet Coke,
political rapper Immortal Technique and regular bursts on Facebook. Her
dissertation is finally in the ring binder after several weeks of hard slog,
and now, with her finals over, there is at last time for going out.